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@@ -15,7 +15,16 @@ If you have the DVB driver source in a different location you will have to change the definition of DVBDIR in the Makefile. -This program requires the card driver version 0.9.0 or higher +If you want to use your DVD drive you will need to compile VDR with + + make DVD=1 + +to activate DVD support. VDR then also needs the package 'libdvdread' +in order to replay DVDs. This package is expected to be located in the +directory ../DVD (seen from the VDR directory). Adjust the definition +of DVDDIR in the Makefile if necessary. + +VDR requires the card driver version 0.9.0 or higher to work properly. You need to load the dvb.o module *without* option 'outstream=0' (previous versions of VDR required this option to have the driver supply the data in AV_PES format; as of version 0.70 VDR @@ -100,6 +109,19 @@ This program must be given to VDR with the '-a' option, as in vdr -a ac3play +Accessing the DVD drive: +------------------------ + +By default VDR expects the DVD drive to be located at /dev/dvd (which +typically is a symbolic link to the actual device, for instance /dev/hdc). +You can use the '-V' option to overwrite this, as in + + vdr -V /media/dvd + +Note that the user id under which VDR runs needs to have write access to +the DVD device in order to replay CSS protected DVDs (which also requires +the presence of the 'libcss' library). + The video data directory: ------------------------- |